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NASA Briefing: Independent NASA Test of RTSX-SU FPGAs

On Wednesday May 11, 2005, a Briefing on the Actel RTSX-S and RTSX-SU devices was given at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. The briefing started at 9:30 am and finished up around 5:30 pm.

Speakers

Dan Elftmann, Director of Product Engineering, Actel Corporation

John Campbell, The Aerospace Corporation

Noriko Yamada, JAXA

Carl Szabo (NASA GSFC)
standing in for Frank Capps, NGST (on Webex)
standing in for Dennis Dowden, NGST (went fishing)

Q&A, Discussion

Douglas Sheldon of CalTech/JPL requested a group discussion on the pros and cons
of post-programming electrical testing and dynamic burn-in. This debate, ongoing
for the past several years, continues for over an hour, in a quite spirited fashion!

Attendees

And a special thanks to Carl for a very professional production!

Carl Szabo, Technical Producer, NASA GSFC